"Dear
Vitamix,
Vitamix receives many
compliments from satisfied users, but I wonder how many can say
that whole foods prepared in their Vitamix actually helped
save their life? I’m
writing to tell you how strongly I believe it has been a major
part of a near miraculous recovery from concurrent bouts with
advanced cancer and heart disease.
In November 2000 I was simultaneously
diagnosed with malignant melanoma and heart disease. The
cancer was already at stage IV in the lymph system. The
heart diagnosis showed 100% blockage in two arteries and
70% blockage in the other two. Six bypasses and three cancer
surgeries followed in the next 32 days. The cancer and
heart physicians wanted to put me on chemotherapy –interferon– a
draconian treatment with minimal success rates.
I believed that God would heal
the cancer and chose natural treatments instead of chemo
or radiation. At first I tried chewing my way through the
health maze, but it takes a special person who can sit
long enough to eat more than 1 raw carrot. So I transitioned
to juicing, but each morning took a half hour of rinsing,
cutting, pushing, pulping, scraping and washing up just
to get a small glass of juice. Plus, I was throwing out
the most beneficial part, the fiber.
Then I heard about Vitamix,
first, on the internet then at the home show. Your representative
and the demonstrations were terrific and I practically
ran home that night to start using my new Vitamix. For
a week I experimented with heart & cancer formulas
until I came up with the recipe that I now use each day.
It includes healthy fruits, vegetables and supplements,
tastes delicious, and actually fills me up so that I can
skip an entire meal.
The results have been nothing
short of miraculous. Through exercise, nutritional foods
prepared in the Vitamix, and God’s healing
grace, I’ve
fully recovered from both maladies.
Now my day includes one to two
Vitamix meals. Breakfast
is a juice & veggie drink:
2 medium carrots, an apple, a wedge of cantaloupe, and
maybe a banana or strawberry. Then a half tub of yogurt
is spooned in, followed by a scoop or two of protein supplement.
To help the mix, I usually pour in a cup of orange or pineapple
juice, and always follow with ice cubes. Lastly, I toss
in my “medications”, an aspirin and a fish
oil capsule. After two minutes of mixing, I enjoy a delicious
drink that feels so healthy I can picture it nourishing
my body as it goes down.
It only takes 5 minutes to prepare,
including the famous Vitamix quick rinse clean up And
if time is short, I pour it in a go-cup and drink breakfast
in the car on the way to work. A Vitamix breakfast is
thick enough to feel satisfied until lunch, which was never
the case with juicing. In the time it took to labor through
chewing one carrot, I can drink an entire medley of fruits
and veggies. An additional benefit is that the drink makes
nearly a half gallon, which leaves some to store in the
refrigerator for later in the day. (My doctor insists that
each day a fresh drink is made from “living” vegetables
and no leftovers.) Vitamix meals are so inexpensive that
our grocery bills have actually gone down and my family
shops the outside aisles now instead of the prepared food
sections.
The results? Heart wise, I’m
back working, running, and playing tournament tennis. My
weight returned to normal and blood pressure and cholesterol
readings are near perfect. And the melanoma? Regular CT
scans and MRIs came up with almost flawless images. Less
than eight months after surgeries, I played a two day tennis
tournament (at 104 degrees!) and last winter I won the
racquetball league championship at our local YMCA. What
a great 55th birthday present! Life and Health!
From the beginning I believed
that God could -- and would -- take care of me. It was
accomplished through His miraculous healing, exercise,
and nutritional eating with my Vitamix. So if someone
ask me, “Can whole foods preparation in the Vitamix
help a person recover from cancer and
heart disease?”, I can wholeheartedly endorse it as a major part of my recovery."
("Lunch or dinner is dairy.
Skim milk, soy powder, a tub of yogurt, about half a cup
of various cereal favorites, and ice cubes. These are big
meals, at least 32 ounces, yet they cost less than $2.00
each. And cleanup is a quick rinse – no pulp, stains,
or dried yuck. If I’m in a hurry, it can’t
be beat. The third meal is anything from burgers to peanut
butter to pizza. No worries, and no problems with weight.") |
